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Delivering Same-Sex Accommodation

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Declaration of compliance

Every patient has the right to receive high quality care that is safe, effective and respects their privacy and dignity.

North Bristol NHS Trust is committed to providing every patient with same sex accommodation. This helps to safeguard their privacy and dignity when they are often at their most vulnerable.

North Bristol NHS Trust is pleased to confirm that it has completed and maintained its plans to eliminate mixed sex accommodation where it is in the overall best interests of the patient, or reflects their personal choice’.

Our aim is to have the necessary facilities, resources and culture to ensure that admitted patients will only share the room where they sleep with members of the same sex, and same-sex toilets and bathrooms will be close to their bed area. With the opening of the new state-of-the art Brunel hospital facility, at Southmead Hospital Bristol, this means over 600 of the 1,000 beds at the Trust are single rooms with their own en-suite bathroom.

Sharing with members of the opposite sex will only happen when clinically necessary, for example the Intensive Care Unit.

What this mean for patients

Patients admitted to North Bristol NHS Trust can expect to find:

  • The room where your bed is will only have patients of the same sex as you
  • Your toilet and bathroom will be just for your gender, and will be close to your bed area.

It is possible that there will be both men and women patients on the ward, but they will not share your sleeping area. 

You may share some communal space, such as day rooms or dining rooms, and it is very likely that you will see both men and women patients as you move around the hospital (e.g. on your way to X-ray or the operating theatre).

Visitors of the opposite gender will come into the ward, and potentially where your bed is, and this may include patients visiting each other. It is almost certain that both male and female nurses, doctors and other staff will come into your bed area.

If you need help to use the toilet or take a bath (e.g. you need a hoist or special bath) then you may be taken to a "unisex" bathroom used by both men and women, but a member of staff will be with you, and other patients will not be in the bathroom at the same time.

We are also committed to ensuring all patients are treated as individuals and that all patients' privacy and dignity are maintained.

The NHS will not turn patients away just because a "right-sex" bed is not immediately available.

Spending over £25,000

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The HM Treasury and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) are committed to openness and transparency and below are the monthly listings of NBT's expenditure over £25,000.

The listings show the suppliers we work with. If we have an invoice that's over £25,000 and the cost has been split across a number of teams, these are listed as separate entries and the value is likely to be below £25,000.

This publication is in line with HM Government’s commitment to transparency in public sector expenditure, more details are available on the Data Gov website. 

Download information:

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We diagnose and treat all benign and malignant tumours of the Central nervous system, including the Brain and spinal cord. The majority of Brain tumours that are referred to us turn out to be either Gliomas or metastases. The remainder comprise other rare malignant tumours of the brain and spinal cord, as well as benign tumours such as meningiomas. Tumours that are located in or near the base of skull are dealt with by a separate group of specialists and all such patients are discussed in the fortnightly Skull base MDT, before an appropriate decision is made. Tumours of the Pituitary gland, and Acoustic neuromas (otherwise known as Vestibular schwannomas) also fall within the remit of the skull base group, and a dedicated team of specialists with expertise in this area manage this group of patients.

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Priorities for improvement

Every year the Trust sets priorities for improvement which are consulted upon internally and externally and represent areas where we would like to see significant improvement over the course of the year.  In the Quality Account we lay out how we have worked towards achieving them and the evidence we have to show our progress so far.

NBT Quality Account 2025-26.pdf Quality Account 2024-25 - Approved For Publication.pdf NBT Quality Account 2023-24.pdf NBT Quality Account 2022-23.pdf NBT Quality Account 2021-22.pdf

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North Bristol NHS Trust
Trust Headquarters
Southmead Hospital
Southmead Road
Westbury-on-Trym
Bristol
BS10 5NB

For general enquiries telephone switchboard on 0117 9505050

View a full list of Southmead Hospital telephone numbers. 

Cossham Hospital
Lodge Road
Kingswood
Bristol
BS15 1LF
Telephone: 0117 3408400

View a full list of Cossham Hospital telephone numbers. 

Bristol Centre for Enablement
Highwood Pavillions
Jupiter Road
Patchway
Bristol
BS34 5BW
Telephone: 0300 3000110

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Frenchay Park Road
Frenchay
Bristol
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